http://wbkr.com Thu, 23 May 2013 21:27:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://wbkr.com/wbkr-pioneer-douglas-hamby-passes-away-at-80/ http://wbkr.com/wbkr-pioneer-douglas-hamby-passes-away-at-80/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:23:23 +0000 Chadwick Benefield http://wbkr.com/?p=59026 WBKR has lost one of its founding fathers.  We received news this morning that Douglas Hamby, who served as General Manager of WOMI and helped create WBKR-FM, passed away Sunday at Owensboro Medical Health System.  Not only was Douglas a U.S. Navy Veteran of the Korean War, he was a leader in the field of broadcasting and all of us here at WBKR owe our careers, at least in some part, to him. 

]]> http://wbkr.com/wbkr-pioneer-douglas-hamby-passes-away-at-80/feed/ 0 Douglas Hamby, WBKR founding father and former WOMI General Manager